The global Bitcoin community has been in a contentious brawl over the past three years; a war that has escalated in recent months around how to expand the capacity of the increasingly bloated Bitcoin blockchain network. In May, a collaborative effort on the part of two groups forged a compromise…

In a recent development in the U.S. that sent shockwaves through the world of personal finance, credit reporting agency Equifax announced that they had been breached, compromising the personal information of over 143 million Americans. The potential impact of this is profound as it amounts to over 40 percent of…